As
we conclude this series concerning the trashing of America, you have
discovered that we Americans trash our continent in endless methods.
We toss trash. We bury trash. We inject chemicals in the land, air
and water. We possess little regard for our environment whether we
can see what we are doing via litter or not see it via chemicals,
carbon footprint and ground water contamination.

One
reader showed me his solution by telling me to “back up”
my “Keep the Scene Clean” signs along I-70 on Exit 254
west of Denver, Colorado. He said, “That sign won’t do
any good and you know that. Anything that is not BACKED up is the
lazy man’s way. Just like people that throw the trash out of
their car. You have to back it up Frosty. Here’s how. Put on
the sign “Keep The Scene Clean” and BACK IT UP with: “Snipers
Are Observing at a Distance, Throw Trash at Your Own Risk!”
Thanks Nelson!

We
trash our environment without any concern for the short or long term
consequences.

Most
of us, and I repeat, most Americans lack enough sense of responsibility
to pick it up. They don’t care enough to organize groups to
counter the Peter Coors Factor by creating a national 10 cent deposit-return
recycling law. We continue as just plain lazy on all our parts for
something so basic and so sensible as deposit-return laws. It’s
morally and ethically irresponsible on multiple levels.

When
it comes to our tossing “chemicals” and “toxins”
into the environment, we stand guilty on all counts. It’s amazing
to me that we wonder why cancer accelerates as the number one killer
of Americans. It’s amazing to me that conditions such as autism
and Parkinson’s disease grow in numbers, but we still spray
billions of gallons of poisons on our crops with pesticides and herbicides
that disrupt the neural networks that operate in all our bodies. Twenty
years ago autism struck 1 child in 20,000 births, but today, it strikes
1 in 110 births. Wouldn’t a bit of common sense tell us that
we’re poisoning our world beyond our understandings? (Source:
Katie Couric, NBC, 2010, “Autism in America”)

For
those of us lucky enough not to suffer cancer, it means chemical companies
expect those that contract cancer as the unlucky ones known as chemical
“collateral damage.”

From
1946 to 1970, the United States government run by our elected representatives
dumped 100,000 curies of nuclear waste into the Pacific Ocean about
20 miles off San Francisco in some 48,000 fifty-five gallon drums.
National Public Radio followed a report whereby scuba divers found
that all the drums had leaked as expected and spilled their toxic
load into the ocean. They could have poured it out in the first place
instead of pretending they were storing it in metal drums. (www.Jstor.org)

No
wonder pregnant women cannot eat tuna or salmon for fear their babies
will suffer birth defects. Guess what! Children suffer all sorts of
birth defects these days that were never heard about before 1950 when
food was grown without chemicals.

With
the recent nuclear waste being pumped into the Pacific from the Japanese
reactors being hit by the tsunami, we can expect even more contamination
of the oceans and marine life. We’re “trashing”
our oceans and much of our food.

Additionally,
after WWII, U.S. officials “okayed” the dumping of millions
of gallons of mustard gas and Lewisite chemicals into the Pacific,
Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. You can Google it and see the dumping
sites. It’s pretty disgusting. (Source: www.dailypress.org,
“A generation of indiscriminate dumping”)

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This
is just a sampling of the millions of gallons of poisons dumped into
the “final toilet” of our oceans.

“On
April 19, 1958, the S.S. William Ralston was packed with 301,000 155-pound
bombs filled with mustard agent, as well as almost 1,500 1-ton containers
of Lewisite. The ship was taken an estimated 117 miles off San Francisco
and scuttled in 13,542 feet of water. The dump zone had been used
since the 1940s for surplus conventional high explosive ordnance,
as well as an estimated 47,800 containers of low-level radioactive
waste not known to be of military origin. A month later, chemical
munitions that couldn't fit in the Ralston were loaded onto a barge
and towed by the tug Sea Lion to the same location, where it was thrown
over the side. Buried there were six 100-pound mustard bombs, 335
1-ton containers of Lewisite, 11 1-ton containers of mustard agent
and a pair of mustard-filled projectiles of unknown caliber.”

Take
a guess at what countries like Russia, China, India, Pakistan, France
(with countless nuclear reactors) and all the other countries are
doing with their nuclear waste. I’m amazed we all haven’t
come down with horrific cancers and birth defects.

Solutions:

How
can Americans stop the container litter that stretches from sea to
shining sea? How can we stop adding to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
How can we stop people from littering 51 billion pieces a year in
the USA alone?

1.
We must ask ourselves if we as a civilization want to continue our
extremely irresponsible activities as to litter, trash, fast food
trash, plastic cup trash, container trash, junk trailers, chemicals
everywhere, poisoning our ground water, acidifying our oceans and
leaving all forms of junk all over the landscape.

2.
We desperately need education in our schools that teach young Americans
and immigrants from other third world cultures, now at over 40 million
foreign born, that throwing trash as a matter of standard operating
procedures—is not acceptable.

3.
We must realize that we are about to add 100, 200, 300 million more
people to this country within the lifetime of a child born today.
The challenges of their “litter” in its many forms grows
daunting beyond imagination.

4.
We must work at the local, state and national level to force a federal
10 cent deposit/return law for all 50 states. Michigan has led the
way and it works brilliantly.

5.
We need intensive environmental educational classes as a pre-requisite
to high school graduation. We could supplement with video ads run
on TV.

6.
You must get involved. I hear complaints, “Well, they won’t
do anything.” That means “you” become “they”
and then “you” get things moving. We cannot count on lawmakers
to do what’s right because of the Peter Coors Factor.

7.
Someone with money needs to start a national website that will promote
a national 10 cent deposit-return law for all Americans. If I owned
Bill Gates’ bank account, I’d create a national campaign
to make it happen. It’s just common sense for heaven sakes!

8.
That would get the ball rolling and move our civilization toward a
cleaner, brighter and more ecologically responsible future.

9.
Additionally, it would “Keep the Scene Clean” like my
signs on I-70 on exit 254 in Colorado.

10.
With over 80,000 chemicals created by humanity, we need to stop creating
an average of 2,000 more chemicals annually that cannot be good for
nature. When is enough—enough? I say we are there now! Let’s
quit destroying the ecological balances of our world by adding more
chemicals.

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If
we don’t address the core of the container litter problem, we
will never solve it by picking up the endless trash. Why? Because
millions of people will keep tossing their containers! We need economic
incentives so that more people will pick up the trash thrown by millions
of slobs, misfits, stupid people, morons, idiots and morally mindless
people. A 10 cent deposit incentive would create an armada of kids
will be out picking up that litter faster than a chicken on a bug.
Otherwise, we will continue to do damage to the biosphere as to litter,
resource waste and environmental degradation on multiple levels.

“Keep
The Scene Clean: Snipers Are Observing at a Distance, Throw Trash
at Your Own Risk!”

Listen
to Frosty Wooldridge on Wednesdays as he interviews
top national leaders on his radio show "Connecting the Dots"
at www.themicroeffect.com
at 6:00 PM Mountain Time. Adjust tuning in to your time zone.

Frosty
Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families
in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on six continents
and six times across the United States in the past 30 years. His published
books include: "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" ; �STRIKE THREE! TAKE
YOUR BASE�; �IMMIGRATION�S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES�; �MOTORCYCLE
ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND�A TEEN NOVEL�; �BICYCLING AROUND THE
WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION�; �AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER: ANTARCTICA.�
His next book: �TILTING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A SWAMP.� He lives
in Denver, Colorado.